[Python-Dev] Proposal: defaultdict

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Fri Feb 17 20:26:40 CET 2006


On Friday 17 February 2006 14:09, Guido van Rossum wrote:
 > So here's a new proposal.

I like the version you came up with.  It has sufficient functionality to make 
it easy to use, and enough flexibility to be useful in more specialized 
cases.  I'm quite certain it would handle all the cases I've actually dealt 
with where I wanted a variation of a mapping with default values.


  -Fred

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